The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-13
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mrs. CLEVELAND keeps sewing-woman en-
ployed all the time in making alterations and
changes in the trimming of her various CO.'S
tunes.
GENERAL SHTRIDANS summer on the Massa-
chusetts shore has given him new lease of life.
He looks younger and happier than he has for
some years past.
GENERAL BUTLER heads the list of money
making lawyers of the country. His fortune is
estimated at So. SOC, 00O and his annual practice
nets him 800. 900.
tenth inches tall. and weighs $50 pounds; the
average Enelishman is sixty-eight inches tall,
and weighs 156 pounds
JOAQUIN MILLER has been appointed by the
Governor of California a commissioner to repre-
sent that State at the Forestry Congress at
Springfield ILL.,. next month.
MRS. SIGoURNEYs grave is in Spring Grove
Cemetery, Hartford. Conn. 1t is shamefully
neglected.. Weeds and wild vines overrun the
attention.
Miss FRANCES e. WILLARD. president of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, has not
known vacation ten years. She employs
four secretaries at her home In Evanston ILL.,
and is about the busiest of all busy women.
Mr. THEODORE THOMAS has his country home
at Fair Haven, Mass 1t is an old fashio ned
mouse, with large grounds, commanding q view
OF the water. There he rusticates with his wife
and children. His oldest is at Harvard.
FRANKLIN's grave, at Fifth and Arch streets,
Philadelphia, is in neglected condition. The
proprie ty is suggested of putting 1t in proper
shape, the more particularly DIR. franklin
was delegate to the Constitutional Convention
in 1857
THERE is citizen of San Bernardino. Cal.
says the Courier of that place. who years ago
decided that kissing was wicked. because Christ
was betrayed with a kiss He has been married
twenty years. and is the father OF eleven
children, but has never kissed his wife nor one
of his offspring.
THE Pulmans making elaborate prepare
tions to celebrate next summer the eghtieth
birthday of their mother The palace-car man
has sent his landscape artist down to the
Thousand Islands, where he owns one of the
islands, and where A. Is. Pullman owns another
and elaborate preparations are going to be made
to have great family fere.
IN making up party for travelling excur-
sion." said Charles Dudley Warner to a friend
who was planning one, always be sure to have
it include at least one ignorant woman She
ask or think you don't need TO ask, and you
will secure the benefit of vast deal of informa-
ton you would otherwise lose"
GOVERNOR BEAVER, of Pennsylvania, has a
double. He is young man of Oil City and at
Franklin, Penn, few nights ago a band sere-
nsQeQ him. tDlnk1nR ne was the Governor. The
Oil City youth stepped out the balcony
placed his hand on his breast. and made digni-
fed bow. Governor Beaver was in Franklin at
the time and when he heard of the occurrence
was much amused.
Hone YEN CHANG is the full name OF the
ambitious young Chinaman whom the New York
Legislature by special enactment last May per-
mitted the courts to admit to practice as an at
torney and counsellor at-law, despite the fact
that he is not citizen of the United States.
The Chinese of New York have long desired
legal champion of their own race to defend them
from the plundering rapacity of Caucasians.
EDITOR HALsTEAD writes from Homburg
that the Prince of Wales sis a man of great
TACT and plays his part with more talent than
he has credit for. He is an admirable public
speaker. and pursues the difficult path before
him with cleverness in many ways. He appears
at the springs every morning at about o'clock,
takes his three glasses of water and his walk
for hour and half. and makes himself
agreeable"
IT is curious fact that Patrick Henry was
the first Governor of Illinois. In 1778 Virginia
created the county of Illinois in Virginia.,
which embraced the territory now forming the
State of Ohio, Indiana, illinois. Michigan and
Wisconsin. ma king probably the largest county
ever organized. exceeding the whole of Great
Britain aud Ireland; and thus the great orator
of the Revolution. then Governor of Virginia.
became the first Governor of Illinois
THE centenary of the first ascent of Mont
Blanc having been celebrated at Chamounix on
Aug. 2s, the French Alpine Club is arranging to
erect there a bronze statue of Jacques Balmat
That illustrious guide is represented by the
artist in his characteristic dress, pointing ont
the summit of the peak to Benedict de Sassure
the Geneva scientist. who first measured it's
height. Balmat. the Columbusof the Alps. as
Dumas pere called him, only twenty-four
wears old when he first of all men reached the
top of the ''Sovran Blanc"
WINNIE DAVIS is the pet of the South n B.
Forrest Camp, of Confederate Veterans of Chat
tanooga will present her with an elegant gold
badge pendant from which is a handsome gold
star bearing the letters emblazoned thereon
.Varina," that being Miss Davis name. On
each of the five points of the star is large dia-
mond, giving the whole a most beautiful ap-
pearance. On the diverse side of the circular,
main badge. is the following: To Miss Winnie
Davis. Daughter OF the Confederacy, 1--WE
in her the highest type of Southern
womaphood F"
GENERAL PLEAsANToN, who gained good deal
of notoriety during the blue-gass craze. was in
Philad elpnia last week. He an overcoat, a
huge white felt sombrero and carried his cane be-
hind his back in perpendicular position His hair
is snow white, is his beard. He is stopped
with age, and plods along looking on the ground
all the time. He walks all town every
day. and can be the streets in all sorts
Of weather. In warm weather he frequently
wears artic overshoes, and rainy days he
wears great waterproof coat.
DR. JOSEPH PARKER was born and educated
among the Independents, but the church to
which his father attached was of the ex-
treme Ca1vinistic type, and under the influence
of the celebrated Dr. Morrison new views began
to prevail. There was division. and Dr. Park
err then youth, went to the Wesleyan body,
and in a little while made a class-leader and
then a local preacher But when he entered
upon his public ministerial career he did in
the church to which his father originally be-
longed, and in which he received the first i'm
pressions.
MISS KATE T. KIMBALL, whose name is
word among the 100. 900 members of
the Cnautauqua circles in her capacity as secre-